I sent a message to a friend of mine, "Heard your mom died. So sorry. LOL."
LOL means "Lots Of Love", right?
I sent a message to a friend of mine, "Heard your mom died. So sorry. LOL."
LOL means "Lots Of Love", right?
The UK is building a new ship for Arctic explorarion and asked the public to submit ideas to name the ship.
The leading name is: Boaty McBoatface.
I approve this message.
So, after all those many years of complaining about how broken Community Server was, the forum software has been changed, twice, and both them are worse than Community Server. I feel like I'm being trolled.
http://i.imgur.com/zvHA5Ay.jpg
blakeyrat said:apapadimoulis said:Suggesting "oh just go set up phpbbs, and do a plug-in for X" is not helping. I hate PHP, linux, and all other tech things I don't know and understand.
Right, but this one is in Linux and Ruby on Rails and is acceptable somehow? I keep reading these little nuggets, then getting confused as to how they filter out PhpBB but include Discourse.I'm friends with the Discourse guys, I believe in them, and all that... plus they also helped set this site up.
Well, that explains things much more clearly now. It doesn't matter what a horrendous, fundamentally broken piece of shit Discourse is. He's knows the developers and that's all that matters.
Yikes.
You have a working scrollbar, it's right there at the bottom right of the topic:
Congratulations.
I did. You said it was acceptable. Barely, but acceptable. Then the conversation turned to debating about markdown, endless scrolling, and .9 version numbers.OK. I understand now. Everyone told you Discourse sucks but because one or two people said it was "barely acceptable" you're going to run with that. Oh, and it's all our fault, too.I've asked for help implementing a new forum, doing a data migration, all that for years. To date, no one has helped. Suggesting "oh just go set up phpbbs, and do a plug-in for X" is not helping. I hate PHP, linux, and all other tech things I don't know and understand. Especially if they don't come with a completely intuitive GUI that I can click through, or require reading any instructions. Fuck that.
I have to use enough broken, retarded software. I don't need any more.
AFAIK, a proper/usable WYSIWG does not exist for the web. Every one is terrible.And yet, somehow, people have managed to make more than 229,000 posts on the original site here. Wow. That's really terrible.
Why the fuck did you ask us our opinion those months ago if you didn't give a shit what we had to say?
QFT.
I know change is hard, but the nature of forums and discussion on the web has changed.Bullshit. The only thing that has happened is a few people (such as the mental midgets responsible for Discourse) have tried to invent new things that didn't need to be invented and are demonstrably worse than what is already available.
I wouldn't like to be the one to file a bug report with "if I manually set my database to an incorrect state, the software breaks"No, the correct bug report is:
I manually set the database to an incorrect state, by accident, because the software doesn't tell me what the correct state is supposed to be AND I'M NOT FUCKING TELEPATHIC
I haven't even noticed the scrollbar because I always use the wheel or page-up/page-down to scroll. That seems to work at least (which is more than with some implementations)
But that's not the point. Things like pressing the Home key to go to the top of the page, End to go to the bottom of the page . . and scrollbars -- these are basic things that don't need to be fucked with.
One of Alex's justifications for switching to this pile of fail is "actively maintained". What the fuck good is "actively maintained" if the people who are doing the maintaining have DELIBERATELY broken basic features that have existed in every GUI forever?
The name field is mandatory during registration, so apparantly the settings page chokes when it isn't provided (because it wasn't in the import from CS)OK. I'll buy that.
So you think that maybe it could tell you somewhere on the page THIS FUCKING FIELD IS FUCKING REQUIRED TO BE FILLED IN!!
I do like the more modern layoutWhy is it that "modern" has now become the new word for LOOKS LIKE SHIT?
fuck endless scrolling.
Go to the 'Frist and Welcome' thread, I'm at the end of the thread, I grab the scrollbar handle and drag it to the top of the page. I release the mouse button and . . . . WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!! I'm not at the top of the page. The scrollbar handle bounces down to about halfway. So I grab it again and drag it up to the top, release the mouse button, and it bounces down to about a third of the way down the page.
FUCK YOU. Seriously. FUCK YOU.
This isn't about not liking something simply because it's different. If that was true I'd still be using Windows 3.0. This is about SHIT THAT DOESN"T EVEN WORK PROPERLY.
The thing that enabled that for me was putting something in the "Name" box. Not that there was any indication that that was what it was after....
Things I hate:
- The little box telling me to be nice. I'm already nice, I don't need software to remind me.
Filed under: How did you get it to make tags?
Filed under: wrap text in markdown links to the current page
"wrap text in markdown links' -- What the fuck does that mean?
This piece of crap makes Community Server look like a work of genius.
The 'Save Changes' button does not work at all for me. I uncheck all the stupid 'Send email every time something happens' boxes but can't save my prefs.